The jury for the transmediale Award 2011 have nominated seven outstanding art works from among an impressive pool of over 1000 entries submitted from around the world, covering a broad range of digital and media arts practice. Congratulations to the nominees - and good luck to the transmediale Award 2011 winner who will be announced in Berlin at the Awards Ceremony 5 February 2011! more...
With a considerable amount of irony Ho Tzu-Nyen, one of the most renowned Singapurian filmmakers, borrows the image of Newton's apple as a metaphor for the futile challenge artists face in terms of achieving a creative inspiration (or rather, one after another) of their own accord. more...
This interactive sound installation by Christopher Warnow and Daniel Franke is more than just an interpretation of a composition by Rutger Zuydervelt. An interface that reacts to the audiences' body movements, this work immerses the viewer by superimposing digital and architectural spaces. For each one of us a different, individual and fluid visualisation appears onscreen. more...
This performative-acoustic installation by the Indonesian art collective HONF (House of Natural Fibre) is a response to the religiously motivated, national prohibition of alcoholic drinks in public space. This project highlights not only the often fatal consequences of illegal and unsanitarily produced methanol but moreover points to risk-free fermentation methods of easily available tropical fruits. more...
Les Liens Invisibles, an Italian based collective comprised of Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini created the first social media platform allowing us to leave networks like Facebook & Co per digital "suicide" while moreover being enabled to decide ourselves what we want to happen with our data. more...
The American artist Mark Shepard has created a navigation-app which doesn't only lead us the way to our chosen destination but in fact rouses us from our daily routines---En route we're invited to complete sometimes surprising tasks and thus to explore and experience our urban surroundings in new and astounding ways. more...
Day after day the artist Christin Lahr transfers 1 Euro Cent to the German Federal Ministry of Finance. Each time she consecutively copies 108 characters of Karl Marx' "CAPITAL - A Critique of Political Economy" into the 'reason for payment' box of the transfer form---All the way until the German Federal Bank will have the complete work of text on their bank account.
Wikipedia Art is a conceptual art work composed on Wikipedia. The ongoing composition and performance of Wikipedia Art is intended to point to the 'invisible authors and authorities' of Wikipedia, and by extension the Internet, as well as the site's extant criticisms: bias, consensus over credentials, reliability, accuracy and vandalism. more...
transmediale and CTM are pleased to welcome five key personalities in the fields of digital art and culture as the jury for the transmediale Award 2011 and, for the first Open Web Award: Curator and media arts researcher Defne Ayas, artist, critic and early internet activist Micz Flor, New York based artist and professor Maria Olson, installation artist and author Brandon LaBelle, and Amsterdam based author and researcher Matteo Pasquinelli . Drumbeat platform developer Henrik Moltke joins the jury for Open Web Award 2011 selection. more...
As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are now inviting submissions to the transmediale Award 2011. Invited are art works and projects that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and network oriented cultures. The transmediale Award seeks [more...]more...
